The Creature Comfort Club
By Hannah Reich Berman As a young child, I thought it was cool to belong to a club. At age eight, I joined the Brownies and eventually I graduated and became a Girl Scout. Strictly speaking, neither of...
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A Satmar Chasunah
Machberes: Inside The Chassidish And Yeshivish World By Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum Editor’s Note: On Wednesday morning, we received the sad news that Rabbi Gershon Tannenbaum had passed away. The...
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On YU Israel Mission, Five Towners Help Israelis
Riki Engel of Woodmere was part of a group that weeded the greenhouse of a man who had to relocate from Gush Katif. YU students Talia Molotsky of Chicago and Yocheved Madowicz of Lawrence presenting a...
View ArticleThey’ve Always Hated Us
Our Aliyah Chronicle By Shmuel Katz I overheard a comment in a conversation last week that really riled me. The person said that the occurrence of unnecessary deaths like that of Dafna Meir (the woman...
View ArticleShabbos Work?
Halachic Musings By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Ynet is a non-religious Israeli Internet news site produced by the publishers of Yedioth Ahronoth. Recently, in a controversial article, they posed the following...
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Real Eyes Realize
Senator Marco Rubiovisiting Israel Larry and Esta Gordon at a New York fundraiser for Senator Ted Cruz Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka Governor Chris Christie By Larry Gordon The United States...
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We Want Our Son
A picture of better days: Hadar and Simcha Goldin By Larry Gordon Leah and Simcha Goldin have left their rather satisfying but simple lives in Kfar Saba, Israel and are now traveling the world on a...
View Article5 Towns Dating Forum
Question I am a frum, modern-yeshivish girl in my early thirties. I’ve never been married, but baruch Hashem I never knew from “the shidduch crisis.” Since coming home from seminary years ago, I have...
View ArticleMindBiz
By Esther Mann, LCSW Dear Esther, I think that my husband, who is in his late fifties, has been going through a “midlife crisis.” He has just not been himself for the past year. I’ve been observing...
View ArticleNews from the Hills
By Chanita Teitz Past Events Rabbi Dror Moshe Cassouto speaks for Chazaq. The Chazaq organization and Eshel Avraham presented Rabbi Dror Moshe Cassouto, who spoke in Queens on Monday, February 1. The...
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Touro Remembers Dr. Bernard Lander On Sixth Yahrzeit
Rabbi Doniel Lander speaking about his father, Rabbi Dr. Bernard Lander, a’h,at the yahrzeit gathering. At left is Rabbi Mordechai Jofen, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Bais Yosef. The Touro College community...
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Spin For Sderot, March 5
On Saturday evening, March 5, the Yeshivat Hesder of Sderot will iy’H host a fundraising event at Life Fitness, 235 Mill Street in Lawrence. The evening will feature a spinning class with Yoni...
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Judaism, Left And Right
By Barry Jacobson The part of the Jewish world known as “chareidi,” “right wing,” or “Torah only” has grown tremendously over the past 50 years, and has brought many positive things along with it....
View ArticleBackward PROGRESS
By Yochanan Gordon Relevant to the month of Adar, there is a well-known dispute between Rav and Shmuel recorded in Maseches Megillah. Regarding the statement in the first verse of the Megillah that “he...
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Meeting At Calvary
Dr. Michael Brescia Shabbos lounge at Calvary Halachic End-of-Life Care event participants Frank A. Calamari of Calvary,Rabbi Mordechai Willig of Yeshiva University, and Edward R. Burns, MD,of the...
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Israel Who?
Bruce Springsteen Senator Bernie Sanders Secretary Hillary Clinton By Larry Gordon In the most recent debates—among the Democrats and the Republicans—not a word was mentioned about Israel, U.S.–Israel...
View ArticleSarra Copia: Sulam’s Manifesto
People Of The Book: Classic Works Of The Jewish Tradition By Dr. Henry Abramson An unlikely literary duel in Venice took an unexpected turn in 1621 with the appearance of a slim volume titled “The...
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Kiss The Kosher Cook
By Malkie Hirsch Last week was a baking-intensive week. It started out with an icy and freezing Sunday morning, when all I wanted to do was bake giant chocolate-chip muffins for my boys. The idea of...
View ArticleOn The Other Hand
By Mordechai Schmutter Whenever people realize I’m a lefty, they always feel the need to mention someone else they know who’s a lefty, like we might know each other. Like there’s some kind of club....
View ArticleMaking The Connection
By Shmuel Katz We get used to our lives here and our perceptions of the norm. There are, of course, some things, like wanton, savage murder, that we will never consider routine or part of the norm. But...
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